Where’s my (published) stuff?

Drawing, (c) Conboy-Hill 1968

Here it is; fiction, life writing and the like.

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‘Baby Bird’ Read Short Fiction - Spring 2012. What do you do if you find a lone alien that seems to be dying and you have no idea what ‘normal’ might be for it?

‘If it ain’t broke …’ another Indie on This Personal Space, May 20th, 2012. There’s a great deal of effort going into the prevention of disabilities, including Down’s Syndrome. But not everyone with DS sees that as a benefit so what would happen if you had the choice to go back and change your own DNA? Robert has to make up his mind.

‘Philosopher Stoned’ and ‘Kitchen Forensics’ Read at SWAG’s ’Oscar’s Oscars’ night, May 18th 2012, as part of the West Sussex Writers‘ spot. Live. Scary? You betcha! Both stories are here on the blog.

‘Fete Accomplice’ out as an Indie on This Personal Space, April 22nd, 2012. Marissa Nalletamby, married with two children, starts to have romantic dreams about a man she barely knows. Is it an affair if she never actually meets him? And why is his dream-self getting younger?

‘A Tale of Two Sixties’ Zouche Magazine & Miscellany. In Essays, 11th October 2011. My own experience of making the move from the north of England to the south in 1967. If the phrase ‘It’s grim up North’ resonates with you, think what it might have been like 40+ years ago without colour TV, a motorway, mobile phone, and internet communication to bring other ways of life to us. The psychedelia of Brighton and the unstructured life of an art student could not have been more different.

‘Arthur’s Stone’ Full of Crow - October 2011. A snapshot of life with a man who has autism.

‘No Arrests in 2039′  Every Day Fiction, 7th September 2011. A bit of SF here but with some extraordinary science in the offing that makes it a chilling possibility.

‘Lovely Girls’  The Other Room Journal, 19th August 2011. This is the first piece I think of as literary. You may not, of course! It’s about the bleak life of a woman with cerebral palsy in a 1960s institution for people with learning disabilities - mental handicap, as it was known.

‘When Glorious Eyes Close’ Hazard Cat, 28th February 2011. Always room for a bit of cat schmaltz.

‘Moonrise’, Every Day Fiction, January 2011. Inspired by the unfortunate experience of a friend. It’s fiction, really it is …

‘Promotion’, PowFastFiction, October 2010. First proper publication; thanks Karen [*!] Sadly, Pow Fast is no longer publishing.

‘Rory’s Tie’ in: Dog Days of Summer, Michael J Solender (ed),  September 2010. My first competition entry. The task was to write in 101 words, a story containing the words ‘summer’ and ‘heat’. If you know anything about dogs, you’re ahead of the crowd. I suspect many readers were not and may remain baffled to this day.

‘Fundamentally Wrong’ Boomunderground, 2009. It’s about the challenge of choosing underwear in today’s vast emporia of vestigial foundation garments.

‘Baby and Me’ The Psychologist, 1999 12(1). Volumes of The Psychologist have recently been archived. Hopefully this link points to a PDF that is accessible to non-members. ‘Baby and Me’, about my struggles with early computers, is in the Lighter Side section and so qualifies for this blog rather than the brain-achingly sciencey one.